SIX: Another Brick in the Wall Certain sections of the press, by constantly sniping at cultural expenditure, made philistinism appear patriotic. The wicked Tories will be blamed for ‘vandalising’ the arts, just you see. Yet how bad are the arts cuts? Or is much of this merely special pleading by an over-indulged quango? Quentin Letts, Daily Mail, 2011